This is why I'd rather rebuild my 30 year old civic's engine than buy a new car.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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That seems like a lot of hassle if you're then going to buy a new car anyway.
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2026 will be the year of the Linux car
Aptera, what I'm waiting for. They claim they will have all parts available online for easy repairs, and IMO it's just a really cool car concept.
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Why? Well, probably because Dodge badly needs the money. The brand’s U.S. sales plummeted 29% in 2024
This'll help sales, I'm sure.
Should we make better cars that don't have the interior of 2002? No. Better add ads!
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They're just testing to see what people are willing to accept.
Every time you see a useful idiot saying "it's not that bad" or "they're a business and they need to make money", you know who to blame for why things are the way they are.
Pretty much everyone asked for this with their actions and choices as consumers. Lucky us, we can still choose not to buy a Dodge Charger or a Swasticar.
It’s def gonna spread tho. This is just one model one make. For now. In 2, 5, 10 years? CP77 without any of the fun shit.
Unless everybody now says “I’ll never buy anything from dodge”. If it doesn’t impact sales it really will become the new norm.
You'd really need to boycott anything made by the Stellantis group, which includes
- Abarth
- Alfa Romeo
- Chrysler
- Citroen
- Dodge
- DS
- Fiat
- Jeep
- Lancia
- Maserati
- Opel
- Peugot
- RAM Trucks
- Vauxhall
Because the exact same thing was reported by Jeep drivers a few weeks ago. Maybe the behavior stays contained to just the American brands under the Stellantis umbrella, but better to be safe than sorry.
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You mean the "oopsie poopsie it's just a glitch nothing to see here" thing that was happening to jeeps a little while ago?
Color me shocked
I saw this on Lenny about Jeeps. I asked someone sitting in a new Jeep if she got ads when she came to a stop and she said no. So now I wonder if there is something about the trim level or something. She said it was 1 year old. Maybe this just started.
They could also just be A/B testing shit to see how much backlash they get.
This offends me to the core. Stellantis has made my shit list, and I will never purchase any product they are involved in. EVER !
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We need to tally up all the accidents and pedestrian hit-and-runs that occur involving cars with this “feature.” It would likely be enough of an increase you could reasonably make a class action lawsuit. I have no sympathy whatsoever for a car manufacturer that can’t get it through their heads that distracted driving is a major cause of accidents, and could easily happen by their own features.
Look up "depraved-heart murder."
It's when someone knowingly does something that's so obviously likely to cause death or injury that that indifference to life can essentially be treated as intent, and if someone does as a result it isn't manslaughter or wrongful death, but murder.
Classic examples would be arson or knowingly selling tainted medicine.
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Well let's just wait for the next "hacarthon" and see who can play DOOM on the pop-up first.
Hey so I'm getting this thing on my new Charger, I think it's a check engine light?
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I'd quit my job and start running the campaign for anyone who's willing to run on outlawing this shit. I'd work 75 hour weeks handing out fliers about distracted driving.
Brand new 2024 vehicle: I disabled all connectivity. No software updates, no remote start through their app, nothing; it will never connect to the internet. These greedy car and ad companies have lost the benefit of the doubt. Literally no amount of money will ever be enough for these giant corporations...
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Fuck NO
Any minute now one of those brave-browser idiots will be along to tell us all how great ads are because they can make us aware of products that we had not yet discovered or remind us of products we didn't know were near by.
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If this happened to me and assuming I had physical knobs/buttons for AC, etc, and those wouldn’t be affected, I would take a hammer to it, mount an iPad Mini or something for GPS, and just listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks on my phone via a Bluetooth speaker.
I already have bad road rage (I’m not proud of this & am actively working on it) and this would send me over the edge.
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So... um... will the buyer get money from Dodge to drive this shit then?
They just did this with jeeps last month. Said it 2as an error
Error my ass. "Market research" was the word they wanted.
"OH no, we accidentally deployed ads to your car using a system that took months to develop, how could that have ever happened"
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If someone develops an aftermarket fix to make the ads go away, now that might be a product/sertvice people will want to pay for. Look at Dodge - creating new job sectors!
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